a slum is a poor place
A slum is defined as being a dingy, dirty, squalid urban street, area or district that is generally inhabited by incredibly poor people. Often a slum area has no brick built housing, no plumbing and no job opportunities.
Orher term for slum note
A slum in Brazil is much the same as a slum in South Africa, India or turkey, except for language
The entire city is one big slum.
what are the cleanliness among the slum dwellers
Ghetto or slum.
It might be the Dharavi slum of Mumbai.
Slum Village - album - was created in 2005.
Social Injustice
The phrase "The slum was not born in me" by Jackson likely means that Jackson did not originate or create the conditions of the slum. It suggests that Jackson did not see themselves as responsible for the existence or perpetuation of the slum.
You have your answer in your question. Any one who lives in a slum is not doing well economically. They are poor. People live where they can afford and no one rushes to live in a slum.